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Old Apr 10, 2015, 6:24 am
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mkjr
 
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Originally Posted by Ceasy
This might not be the place for this post, in which case moderators can move it, but want to give a heads up to whisky fans transiting NRT that Suntory has MASSIVELY repriced it's duty free whisky. The $35 bottle of 12 year Hibiki I used to buy is now $80. Same stuff inside with a "duty free limited edition" bottle.

Total hogwash and regret not buying a bottle of whisky when I was in Tokyo all week at the old $35 plus consumption tax. But at least I hope others won't make the same mistake.
when exactly was it 35?

sure, i remember buying bottles of lagavulin in the mid 90s at LHR for US$40 bucks also.

perhaps this will explain why.

http://www.japanese-whisky.com/about...panese-harmony

[BTW, as i posted above, you can buy it for US$64 at astor in the US.]

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